MENOPAUSE LEAVE
Kemi Badenoch started out, as a politician from an ethnic minority, defending the rights of women and girls. At the age of 43 she’s now the Minister for Women and Equalities.
Which, on the surface, makes it strange that she has rejected a suggestion to start a trial of menopause leave (giving women paid leave from work, separate from sick pay) and refused to add it as a protected characteristic to the Equality Act.
If she had done, it would be illegal to discriminate against someone because of the menopause in much the same way it’s illegal to discriminate against someone on
